1 . Tiny New neighbors
One day in 2022, 72-year-old Don Powell was pulling
Don
But a few days later, the small couple did not
Now, Mary and Shelley are still living in the
Don says he now doesn’t want to know who is
| A．emails | B．envelopes | C．food | D．dolls |
| A．unusual | B．horrible | C．meaningful | D．normal |
| A．finally | B．fortunately | C．honestly | D．originally |
| A．in advance | B．with effort | C．by mistake | D．by design |
| A．measures | B．equals | C．builds | D．fits |
| A．wind | B．sand | C．light | D．rain |
| A．melt | B．upgrade | C．disappear | D．respond |
| A．showed off | B．showed through | C．showed around | D．showed up |
| A．tree | B．basket | C．book | D．flower |
| A．mailbox | B．village | C．house | D．neighborhood |
| A．styles | B．updates | C．advice | D．targets |
| A．created. | B．hung | C．placed | D．deserted |
| A．building | B．nest | C．settlement | D．home |
| A．charged | B．responsible | C．fit | D．eager |
| A．end | B．repeat | C．continue | D．suffer |
2 . Most of us have heard of the 3Rs: reduce, reuse and recycle. It is the core principle of a sustainable (可持续的) life, but few of us can apply it in our own lives. Now, there’s a “lab” you can explore and discover a way toward living sustainably.
3R Lab is located in Xuhui district, Shanghai. It offers exhibitions, activities and goods that showcase the 3R principle. The key to a sustainable life, according to Vincent T. M. Fong, the 32-year-old from Hong Kong who created the lab, is to make it a long-term promise. “A sustainable life should be sustainable itself in the first place. You can’t lead a sustainable life on a whim. Small and comfortable changes are exactly what you need,” Fong said.
The lab regularly hosts ugly fruit markets, offering these strange fruits which are often thrown away by traditional markets and consumers at a quite attractive price. “They’re thrown away simply because of their appearance. Buying fruit regardless of how they look reduces food waste significantly in our daily life,” Fong commented.
A water tank with two types of straws is another equipment in the lab. “One type is made from normal plastics widely used in our daily life while the other is from PHA, a new replacement for plastics, and the water is sourced from the Suzhou River,” explained Ni Li, an employee of the lab. Visitors can see how the PHA straws degrade (降解) into a thin layer in just one month, while the others remain unchanged.
“Leading a sustainable life does not necessarily mean sacrifice,” said Fong. Consuming ugly fruit and using degradable plastics are small changes that are good for the environment and easy to stick to. Only in this way can the 3R principle become part of our lives, he added.
After working there for six months, Ni, who wasn’t mindful of the 3R principle before arriving at the lab, now uses her cup every time she buys a coffee. “The job has reshaped my life,” Ni said.
1. What does the-underlined phrase “on a whim” in the second paragraph probably mean?| A．In a rush. | B．On a regular basis. |
| C．Without any reason. | D．As a common practice. |
| A．To reduce food waste. | B．To promote healthy eating. |
| C．To sell new kinds of fruit. | D．To provide more affordable fruit, |
| A．The water pollution caused by plastics. | B．The degradation of PHA straws. |
| C．The interaction between two types of straws. | D．The disappearance of normal plastic straws. |
| A．She avoids going to traditional markets. | B．She has devoted less time to her hobbies. |
| C．She has got rid of a few bad habits. | D．She is leading a low carbon life now. |
3 . There are more than 250 Indigenous (本土的) languages in Australia but, according to an AIATSIS 2018-19 survey, only 123 Aboriginal (澳大利亚土著的) and Torres Strait Islander languages are still in use. Of those, only about 12 are strong and being taught to children.
“It’s very worrying,” says Professor Jakelin Troy, a Ngarigu woman and linguist (语言学家) at the University of Sydney. “As a Ngarigu person in Australia, my own language is not spoken by my community,” she says. “There are a few people who know a little bit about the language.”
But that is beginning to change, she adds, and her community is starting to use their language again. “Our language is not a language that has no future,” she says. “But the future is in our hands.”
“I can now sing a song in my language and I can introduce myself in my language. Last year, I couldn’t do that. It doesn’t take very long to get a language going again, but people need to be supported to do that.”
And Professor Troy is doing what she can to help this along. She designed an Aboriginal language K-10 syllabus (教学大纲) for all school ages. She was also a lead writer on the Australian curriculum for language, focusing on how to teach Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages.
There are now thousands of students studying an Aboriginal language at school in Australia. “Young Australians love being Australian and engaging with who and what we, as the Indigenous people of Australia are. They want to be part of it,” she says.
Like Professor Troy, Professor Felicity Meakins, a linguist at the University of Queensland, wants Indigenous languages to be taught in schools. But she’d also like them to be spoken in different domains (领域), including artistic practices. She points to examples such as Kylie and Clint Bracknell, Noongar people from Western Australia, who have been translating films and versions of Macbeth into the Noongar language.
“I’d love to see language really filling all of the domains where it belongs,” she says.
1. What problem does the survey find about Indigenous languages?| A．They are disappearing. |
| B．They are refused by children. |
| C．They stop being taught at many schools. |
| D．They receive little attention from linguists. |
| A．Worried. | B．Doubtful. | C．Hopeful. | D．Humorous. |
| A．They have experienced many challenges. |
| B．They have won wide praise from local people. |
| C．They need support from Indigenous language speakers. |
| D．They help Aboriginal languages find their places in schools. |
| A．They will be studied as college majors. |
| B．They will be taught to children at home. |
| C．They will be recognized as official languages. |
| D．They will be spoken in fields other than school education. |
4 . While often seen as a negative (消极的) emotion, anger can also be a powerful motivator (促进因素) for people to achieve challenging goals in their lives, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.
“People often believe that a state of happiness is perfect,” said lead author Heather Lench, PhD, a professor in the department of psychologcal and brain sciences at Texas A & M University, “but previous research suggests that a mix of emotions, including negative emotions like anger, results in good outcomes.”
The functionalist theory of emotion suggests that all emotions, good or bad, are reactions to events within a person’s environment and help that person to make proper actions, according to Lench. For example, sadness may suggest that a person needs to seek help or emotional support, while anger may indicate a person needs to take action to overcome an obstacle (障碍).
To better understand the role of anger in achieving goals, researchers conducted a series of experiments involving more than 1,000 participants and analyzed survey data from more than 1,400 respondents. In each experiment, participants either had an emotional response (such as anger, amusement, desire or sadness) or a neutral (中性的) emotional state, and then were presented with a challenging goal. Across all the experiments, anger improved people’s ability to reach their goals compared with a neutral condition in a variety of challenging situations.
“Our research adds to the growing evidence that a mix of positive and negative emotions promotes well-being, and that using negative emotions as tools can be particularly effective in some situations,” Lench said.
1. What is commonly believed concerning people’s emotions?| A．It is believed that a state of joy is great. |
| B．A feeling of sadness leads to poor effect. |
| C．Anger is actually a positive emotion. |
| D．Pride acts as an obstacle to success. |
| A．They hoped to overturn the previous findings. |
| B．They hoped to prove that a state of happiness is ideal. |
| C．They hoped to find the relationship between positive and negative emotions. |
| D．They hoped to have a better understanding of the role of anger in attaining goals. |
| A．The problem of the research. | B．The background of the research. |
| C．The process of the research. | D．The significance of the research. |
| A．Skeptical. | B．Favorable. | C．Uncaring. | D．Critical. |
6 . Creative writing: telling your family story
Do you want to write up your own story or that of a family member? Do you want to produce a record for generations to come, or simply write for your own pleasure? Plan your story, make use of old photographs, and mine history to paint your own picture of the past.
This isn’t a course about researching family history. It is primarily a creative writing course where students use their own family histories as material (素材). Learn how to find information, what you can draw from it, and how you might shape it to produce your own story.
Schedule:
Orientation (培训) Week: 11-17 July
Teaching Weeks: 18 July-21 August
Feedback (反馈) Week: 22-28 August
This course is completed online. Each week of an online course is equal to 2-3 hours of classroom time.
While they have a specific start and end date and will follow a weekly schedule, our courses don’t require students to be online for a specific day of the week or time of the day.
Unless otherwise stated, all course materials will be posted on the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) so that they can be referred to at any time throughout the duration of the course.
Entry requirements:
This course is open to everyone, and you don’t need any knowledge or experience of the subject to attend.
Our online courses are designed especially for adult learners who want to improve their personal or professional development. They are taught by teachers who are expert in both their subjects and in teaching students of all ages and experiences.
Please note that all teaching is in English. You should have near-native command (掌握) of the English language in order to get the most out of the course.
1. What will students learn on the course?| A．Drawing a family tree. | B．Writing a family story. |
| C．Doing research on family history. | D．Making old family pictures look new. |
| A．It is offered online. | B．It starts on July 17. |
| C．It lasts for two weeks. | D．It is given in different languages. |
| A．They should be adult learners. | B．They should be good at English. |
| C．They should have writing experience. | D．They should have a knowledge of the subject. |
What my father wore embarrassed me! I wanted him to dress like a doctor or lawyer, but he always dressed like my father, getting up before dawn every day to make breakfast for my mother and me.
We lived in South Texas, where my father worked as a repairman. He often wore a pair of jeans and a shirt, keeping his pencils, glasses and wrenches (扳手) in his breast pocket. His boots were those with steel toes that made them difficult to pull off his feet, which I sometimes helped him with when he returned from repairing cars — his job that also shamed me.
I blamed the way he dressed. I felt that my classmates laughed at me because they’d seen him mowing lawns (修剪草坪) in cut-off jeans and black boots. My classmates’ families paid men to beautify their lawns, while their fathers travelled in the bay wearing lemon-yellow sweaters and expensive shoes.
He preferred clothes that allowed him the freedom to move under cars. So even when taking part in a school trip with me, he was dressed in his repairman’s suit. On the school bus to the campsite, all students on the bus happily chatted with their parents except me, who lowered the head, avoiding spotting my classmates’ mocking glance (讥笑的眼光) or hearing their jokes, which I thought was about nothing else but what my father wore.
I regretted telling my parents the school trip, and I was very angry why my mother had no spare time while my father happened to have a vacation. But my father failed to read my mind. He was very happy, whistling a tune along the way.
Though my father didn’t sense my bad mood, the school bus seemed as sad as I was. It drove more and more slowly and finally it stopped on the roadside. The driver got out to check the bus but found nothing wrong. Students and parents on the bus began to whisper about what was happening, worried that the delay might spoil the journey.
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When others were complaining, my father stood up.
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The school bus restarted and everyone cheered.
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